Norfolk Virginian, August 23, 1890

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : PricesTransportation -- Water - Freight

Onancock.

Sweet potatoes are still being shipped in immense quantities from this county. Nearly two thousand bushels were shipped from this wharf yesterday, and at the lower wharves the steamers left over seven hundred barrels on the wharf. They are selling for $3.75.

A NEGRO CAMPMEETING ROW.

Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsMoral -- MurderMoral -- Other violent crimeAfrican-Americans -- Religion

As Usual Several Were Slashed and Almost Butchered.

[Special to The Virginian.]

Tasley, Va., August 22. -- From reliable authority your correspondent has learned that a general row occurred at a negro camp meeting at Chinctown, this county, in which two negroes, whose names cannot be ascertained, from Maryland, were horribly butchered. One of them has since died, and the death of the other is hourly expected. The guilty parties are unknown.

As yet no arrests have been made for the cutting of the two negroes, Henry and Charlie Watson, at the Savageville camp Sunday night.

Onancockians say that another negro excursion will never land here unless the whites are hoodwinked.